Governors Reject Request to Have ECDE Teachers Hired by TSC
Governors Reject Request to Have ECDE Teachers Hired by TSC. The concept of shifting the employment of Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) teachers to counties is being opposed by governors.
The Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER), which is in charge of mainstreaming reforms in education, recommended giving TSC the power to appoint and reward the instructors in its final report to President William Ruto.
The taskforce’s proposals, however, have been disputed by a few governors, including a number of CoG committee members.
Andrew Mwadime, the governor of Taita Taveta and chairman of the Water, Forestry and Natural Resources Management Committee, thinks the government should respect devolution and stop from interfering with it.
Governors of Tana River and Narok, Dhadho Godhana and Patrick Ole Ntuntu, who share the same opinions, advocate that the government spend funds to implement devolution rather than changing the constitution to assume their obligations.
For the second time, the government is enforcing the authority of county governments.
President William Ruto and representatives of a health workers’ union met on February 14 to discuss taking over county-run health services, which infuriated the governors.
At the meeting, which was place at State House, the Health Risk Commission was also proposed as an independent body that would oversee the management of human resources for health, including hiring, promoting, and providing all services within the health sector.
Governors Reject Request to Have ECDE Teachers Hired by TSC
County leaders have warned the federal government to refrain from interfering with and aggravating the business because they see this as a violation of the devolved jurisdiction.
The Council of Governors recommended hiring ECDE teachers on a permanent basis and compensating individuals with certificates, diplomas, and degrees sh24387, sh34395 per month, and sh46,494 per month for graduates. However, the majority of counties do not currently follow this recommendation.
Many counties haven’t really hired the instructors on long-term contracts yet. This shows that the majority of ECDE instructors have a variety of incomes and are engaged through contracts; they are referred to as “caregivers” in this situation.
This will be the second attempt to transfer the employment of an ECDE teacher to TSC after the previous attempt was unsuccessful because of resistance from the Labour and Relations Court.
The constitution mandates that TSC appoint eligible instructors to work in any public institution or school, hire those who have already enrolled, and register them.
In Schedule 4 of the constitution, County Government operations include both pre-primary and vocational education.
County governments are required to oversee pre-primary education and childcare institutions, including the hiring of instructors.
But because they think it’s unfair and unreliable, the majority of ECDE teachers want to be dropped from the county payroll.
The team proposed changing the TSC’s oversight of the ECDE teachers once the proposal was accepted.
The committee recommends that P1 teachers and ECDE instructors with degrees work in the same work group and get equivalent compensation and benefits.